WTA: June 11-17 2007 DFS Classic Birmingham, GBR Edgbaston Priory Club Tier III $200,000 56 players - outdoor: grass Live Scores - in popup window WTA .pdf: draws & OOP - notes pics: Yahoo! BC - ED - WTA Birmingham: UK radar - forecast - map # 2 M Sharapova, # 5 J Jankovic # 13 D Hantuchova, # 18 Na Li Barcelona KIA Barcelona, ESP Olympic Tennis Center Tier IV $145,000 32 players - outdoor: red clay WTA .pdf: draws & OOP pics: Yahoo! - tourney - WTA Barcelona: radar - forecast # 28 F Schiavone, # 36 M Muller # 41 E Loit, # 55 K Kanepi

Tourney pages: Birmingham: 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 previous other tourney pages next Birmingham: #5 Jelena Jankovic 5' 9½", 134½ lbs, RH, 2H-BH Birmingham: 5th WTA Singles Title 1st Grass Court Title Barcelona: #61 Meghann Shaughnessy 5' 11", 148 lbs, RH, 2H-BH

    Bradenton Princesses: On Sunday in Birmingham, England, in the final of the DFS Classic, 22-year-old 2nd-seeded # 5 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia (residence: Bradenton, Florida, home of the Bollettieri Academy), defeated the 2004 and 2005 Birmingham champ, 20-year-old top-seeded # 2 Maria Sharapova of Russia (like Jelena a Bollettieri grad, with residences in California & Bradenton, Florida), 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 (Jelena is shown during the match and with the hardware--the Maud Watson Trophy--afterward, with Maria applauding in the background).

    Maria broke Jelena's serve in the 2nd game of the 3rd set, and then held her own to take a 3-0 lead. But Jelena won the next three games, broke Maria again in the 11th game to take a 6-5 lead, and then served out the match.

    Jelena said: "When I started I was a bit slow and not feeling the ball well, but as the match went on I became the player I am, the one that gave me all these results this year. I suddenly started fighting, got into the match and pulled through. I was losing the whole time, but I was just fighting point by point." WTA story

    Maria was playing in her third tourney since a 7 week layoff due to a shoulder injury which had plagued her since the beginning of the season. Her shoulder seems to be better: although she hit 7 double faults in the match, she also fired 8 aces.
    Maria said: "I can only take good things from the match. I lost the edge in the second set when I was up and [Jelena] took advantage of it, but all in all it was a good week. It was a good performance from both of us.
    "I think I've improved tremendously; I am a much better grass court player than four matches ago. Coming into the week my goal was to play five matches, so I couldn't be more pleased. I asked to play five matches and I did."

    It was the second match of the day for both players. Earlier, in the rain-delayed semifinals, Jelena defeated 25-year-old 8th-seeded # 31 Mara Santangelo from Cavalese, Italy, 6-1, 7-5; in the other semi Maria defeated 22-year-old 5th-seeded # 21 Marion Bartoli of France (residence: Geneva, Switzerland) 7-5, 6-0.

    Jelena is actually ranked # 3 this week, the highest rank of her career, after reaching the semis at Roland Garros. But the previous week's rankings are used to determine seeds, and those ranks are usually used on these pages so they will match the drawsheets.

    All-terrain: Jelena is now 5-5 in WTA singles finals. She also won the titles this year at Auckland (hardcourt), Charleston (green clay), and Rome (red clay); this is her first chlorophyll court crown.
    2006 US Open and 2004 Wimbledon champion Maria is now 15-6 in WTA singles finals. Maria still leads Jelena 3-1 in career matches; all of their meetings have been three setters (including their previous meeting, the 2005 Birmingham final, which Maria won 6-2, 4-6, 6-1) except a match in Beijing in 2004 from which Jelena retired due to injury.

    In the Barcelona final on Saturday, 28 year old 6th seeded # 61 Meghann Shaughnessy from Scottsdale, Arizona defeated 22 year old # 104 Edina Gallovits of Romania (residence: Atlanta, Georgia), 6-3, 6-2 (the photo of Meghann after match point is the first to escape from Barcelona this week).

    Meghann and Edina had never before met on the field of combat. Meghann said: "I went into the final not knowing what to expect. The key today was my serve, and dictating play from the baseline. If I gave her too much time [Edina] would have run me around...
    "I always just play one match at a time, because the competition is so tough these days it doesn't matter what you did yesterday or last week. Even though I only lost one set this week, every one was very close, and I'm just really happy. I feel more confident about my game." WTA story

    Edina said: "I came out and played well, and it was close until 3-all but then [Meghann] stepped it up. I had a point for 3-1 in the first set but I just didn't use my chances. I made a few easy mistakes and just wasn't aggressive enough."

    Meghann, whose career high ranking is # 11, is now 6-4 in WTA singles finals, and has 15 doubles titles as well. Edina was playing in her 1st WTA singles final; she has won 12 singles and 8 doubles titles in ITF play.

    Barcelona player blog by Flavia Pennetta

    The 4-week chlorophyll court season begins this week at Birmingham, followed by Eastbourne and s'Hertengobosch next week, and then the Wimbledon fortnight.

    Birmingham is the tourney that may have the lowest total prize $ to # of players ratio of the WTA Tour. The 56 players in the main draw (and 24 more who lost in qualifying) are there to get some time in playing on grass to prepare for Wimbledon, more than for the $200,000 prize money. Next week at Eastbourne, the last week before Wimbledon, there will be about half as many players, and over 3 times as much prize money.

    Barcelona is a new tourney in 2007, on red clay.

WTA SCOREBOARD: Birmingham & Barcelona s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser ranks are for the previous week How do players get into the "draw"?

DFS Classic,  Birmingham, England   Plan your trip Local Radar Detailed Forecast     Birmingham: The main draw for Birmingham has 16 seeds, with 8 1st-round byes. There are 8 qualifiers and 4 wild cards in the main draw. Qualifying finals are on Sunday.     Edgbaston Priory Club - click for interactive sat pic-street map Latitude: 52.458539 Longitude: -1.912941 goto link for World Wind     Birmingham (daylight savings) time is GMT (UCT, ZULU) + 1 hour (US Pacific Daylight Time +8, EDT +5). England news On Monday, June 11, 2007 at Birmingham, 2004 & 2005 tourney champ and top seed Maria Sharapova met the press... On the practice courts, the other most prominent Nike Princess, 3rd-seeded Daniela Hantuchova, talked to Maria about her experiments with unorthodox and exotic grips... As she practiced, Maria thought That Daniela is so funny -- but stuck to her usual kinda sorta Eastern racquet-hand attachment system... Also on Monday, Maria posed for some pleasing pretty poolside pics... In other Monday offcourt action, The Sisters, Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko, who have been rapidly rising through the rankings, visited the Lordswood School to teach some tennis, and Daniela practiced being pretty during a TV interview... Sania Mirza also did the TV thing on Monday, after her 1st round win; and on Tuesday, 2nd-seed Jelena Jankovic had a TV interview

Birmingham, 1st Round, Mon-Tues 11am loser's prize: $540 US (2006: $580); points: 1 #33 s9 Julia Vakulenko UKR d #92 Tiantian Sun CHN 6-2, 6-1 Mon *#58 Alicia Molik AUS d #34 s10 Severine Bremond FRA 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Tue *#93 Angelique Kerber GER d #35 s11 Olga Poutchkova RUS 6-0, 6-0 Tue #38 s12 Agnieszka Radwanska POL d #111 Anne Kremer LUX 6-1, 6-3 Mon #39 s13 Meilen Tu USA d #54 Roberta Vinci ITA 6-1, 6-2 Mon Meilen's backhand *#109 q Yuliana Fedak UKR d #40 s14 Michaella Krajicek NED 7-6(5), 6-4 Mon #42 s15 Eleni Daniilidou GRE d #70 Laura Granville USA 6-3, 7-6(5) Mon Laura driving a forehand, and Eleni smershing a backhand #44 s16 Maria Kirilenko RUS d #196 q Raquel Kops-Jones USA 6-3, 6-3 Mon #46 Nathalie Dechy FRA d #87 Alberta Brianti ITA 6-3, 4-1 retired--left hamstring strain Mon *#77 Yaroslava Shvedova RUS d #47 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 Mon #50 Sania Mirza IND d #64 Maria Elena Camerin ITA 6-3, 6-3 Mon Sania about to connect with a backhand drive     After several weeks layoff for rehab of her damaged anterior cruciate ligament, Sania reappeared in May wielding the new the new Head MicroGEL Extreme. This bat is available in two lengths, 27" and 27¼". Both have a 100 sq. in. head. The 27" MicroGEL Extreme Pro model weighs 11.8 oz. strung, is balanced 7 points head light, and has a stiffness rating of 68, with a swingweight of 332. Most former users of the Head Flexpoint Instinct are now swinging the MicroGEL Extreme, including Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anastasia Myskina. #53 Yung-Jan Chan TPE d #98 sr Jamea Jackson USA 6-3, 6-1 Tue #56 Elena Likhovtseva RUS d #113 Bethanie Mattek USA 6-3, 6-0 Mon *#239 wc Naomi Cavaday GBR d #60 Vasilisa Bardina RUS 6-2, 6-1 Tue #69 Milagros Sequera VEN d #430 wc Elena Baltacha GBR 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 Tue Milagros driving a forehand #72 Tamira Paszek AUT d #173 wc Anne Keothavong GBR 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 Tue *#195 q Ayumi Morita JPN d #73 Jill Craybas USA 6-4, 6-1 Tue #74 Vania King USA d #208 q Brenda Schultz-McCarthy NED 7-6(7), 7-6(7) Tue *#149 q Andreja Klepac SLO d #79 Ekaterina Bychkova RUS 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 Mon *#160 q Olga Govortsova BLR d #83 Eva Birnerova RUS 6(9)-7, 4-6, 7-6(7) Mon *#91 Tsvetana Pironkova BUL d #84 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN 4-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(4) Mon *#117 q Lilia Osterloh USA d #97 Varvara Lepchenko 7-6(7), 6-3 Mon #116 Ahsha Rolle USA d #127 Abigail Spears USA 6-4, 6-3 Mon #119 Casey Dellacqua AUS d #179 q Zi Yan CHN 6-2, 6-2 Mon

Birmingham, 2nd Round, Tue-Wed 11am WTA Tue story - WTA Wed story loser's prize: $1,035 US (2006: $1,125); points: 10 #2 s1 wc Maria Sharapova RUS d #117 q Lilia Osterloh USA 6-4, 6-0 Wed Maria and Lilia following backhands, and Maria after match point     Maria said: "Considering I didn't have a lot of time to practice, I thought it went well. You can't expect yourself to go out and hit winners left, right and center."     About her 3rd round opponent, Tamira Paszek, Maria said: "It will be a tough match. I actually saw her play during Roland Garros. She gave Justine [Henin] a hard time and I could see she has a lot of talent. She's young and will go into the match with not a lot to lose, so it will be important for me to go for my shots and not give her a chance to dictate the points from the beginning." #5 s2 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #91 Tsvetana Pironkova BUL 6-4, 6-1 Wed Jelena and Tsvetana driving forehands, and Jelena after match point     Jelena said: "In the first set I was struggling a bit and making a lot of errors. But in the second set I started to find my rhythm. Overall I'm happy with my performance, especially as it's my first match on grass after the clay court season...     "I like it here on the grass. I think because I hit the ball pretty flat, the faster surfaces suit my game and I think I definitely have a great chance of doing well this week and then at Wimbledon." #13 s3 Daniela Hantuchova SVK d #160 q Olga Govortsova BLR 6-2, 6-4 Tue Olga driving a forehand, Daniela's backhand, and after match point #18 s4 Na Li CHN d #77 Yaroslava Shvedova RUS 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 Tue Na firing a forehand, and Yaroslava about to slice a backhand #21 s5 Marion Bartoli FRA d #239 wc Naomi Cavaday GBR Wed #24 s6 Alona Bondarenko UKR d #53 Yung-Jan Chan TPE 6-3, 6-4 Wed *#195 q Ayumi Morita JPN d #26 s7 Ai Sugiyama JPN 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 Wed 16-year-old Ayumi following a backhand, Ai about to swat a forehand, and Ayumi following another backhand #31 s8 Mara Santangelo ITA d #50 Sania Mirza IND 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(6) Wed #33 s9 Julia Vakulenko UKR d #149 q Andreja Klepac SLO 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 Wed *#56 Elena Likhovtseva RUS d #38 s12 Agnieszka Radwanska POL 7-5, 7-6(4) Tue *#72 Tamira Paszek AUT d #39 s13 Meilen Tu USA 6-2, 7-6(3) Wed Tamira playing Meet the Press #42 s15 Eleni Daniilidou GRE d #119 Casey Dellacqua AUS 6-4, 6-4 Tue #44 s16 Maria Kirilenko RUS d #46 Nathalie Dechy FRA 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 Tue *#74 Vania King USA d #58 Alicia Molik AUS 7-6(10), 6-4 Wed *#109 q Yuliana Fedak UKR d #69 Milagros Sequera VEN 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 Wed #93 Angelique Kerber GER d #116 Ahsha Rolle USA 6-4, 6-1 Wed

Birmingham, 3rd Round, Thu 11am ppd-Fri 10:30am WTA Thu story - WTA Fri story loser's prize: $2,010 US (2006: $2,180); points: 20 rain prevented play on Thursday - Friday: rain delay #2 s1 wc Maria Sharapova RUS d #72 Tamira Paszek AUT 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 ppd-Sat Tamira waiting to swat a backhand, and celebrating after breaking Maria's serve; Maria firing a forehand, and after match point #5 s2 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #44 s16 Maria Kirilenko RUS 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 Jelena and Maria delivering forehands #13 s3 Daniela Hantuchova SVK d #42 s15 Eleni Daniilidou GRE 7-6(3), 6-4 ppd-Sat Eleni following a forehand, and Daniela fielding one #18 s4 Na Li CHN d #109 q Yuliana Fedak UKR 6-4, 6-4 Yuliana doing her Groucho while fielding a forehand (no photos of Na were available) #21 s5 Marion Bartoli FRA d #93 Angelique Kerber GER 6-2, 6-0 Marion driving a backhand #24 s6 Alona Bondarenko UKR d #74 Vania King USA 6-1, 6-3 #31 s8 Mara Santangelo ITA d #33 s9 Julia Vakulenko UKR 1-3 retired-- left ankle sprain #56 Elena Likhovtseva RUS d #195 q Ayumi Morita JPN 6-2, 6-0

Birmingham, QFs, Fri 11am ppd-Sat loser's prize: $3,910 US (2006: $4,230); points: 35 Saturday: rain has delayed play #2 s1 wc Maria Sharapova RUS d #56 Elena Likhovtseva RUS 6-2, 6-3 Maria ready to wallop a backhand and firing a forehand, and Elena, who had crushed, killed and destroyed Ayumi Morita in the 3rd round, possibly thinking about travel time to Eastbourne, where her 1st round qualifying match was postponed to Sunday #5 s2 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #24 s6 Alona Bondarenko UKR 6-4, 6-3 Jelena driving a forehand, and Alona and Jelena belting backhands #21 s5 Marion Bartoli FRA d #13 s3 Daniela Hantuchova SVK 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 1st 2 sets Sat- 3rd set Sun Marion on Saturday, delivering her 2-handed forehand with backhand grip *#31 s8 Mara Santangelo ITA d #18 s4 Na Li CHN 6-2, 7-5 Mara stepping up to a forehand, and Na following one

Birmingham, SFs, Sat ppd-Sun loser's prize: $7,600 US (2006: $8,220); points: 65 #2 s1 wc Maria Sharapova RUS d #21 s5 Marion Bartoli FRA 7-5, 6-0 Maria fielding a drop shot, about to fire a forehand, and running one down     Marion had to play the 3rd set of her quarterfinal win over Daniela Hantuchova before taking on Maria. Marion led 5-4 and was serving for the 1st set when play was interrupted by an injury to a spectator who fell in the stands. When play resumed, Maria won 9 straight games to take the match.     Marion did not blame the interruption for the loss. Marion said: "The problem was the short time between each match. To serve for the [1st set] against Maria, who is one of the best players on grass, was amazing.     "I got tired and she went on to control the match. It is better for Maria to play the final. She is in better shape than me." PA Sport story #5 s2 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #31 s8 Mara Santangelo ITA 6-1, 7-5 Mara and Jelena following forehands

Birmingham, Final, Sun 1pm loser's prize: $14,790 US (2006: $16,000); points: 100 winner's prize: $28,650 US (2006: $31,000); points: 140 *#5 s2 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #2 s1 wc Maria Sharapova RUS 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 Jelena driving a forehand, Maria's backhand drive, Maria after winning the 1st set, Jelena following a backhand, and after match point

Birmingham, Doubles Final, Sun cC m5 loser's prize: $ (2006: $4,760) winner's prize: $ (2006: $9,250) cdr25 s2 Yung-Jan Chan & Chia-Jung Chuan d cdr68 Tiantian Sun & Meilen Tu 7-6(3), 6-3 Birmingham, Qualifying Finals, Sun Jun 10 losers' prizes: q1:$145 pts:1; q2:$280 (2006 $300) pts:3; qualifier points: 4 #109 Yuliana Fedak UKR d #203 Melanie South GBR 7-5, 6-0 #117 Lilia Osterloh USA d #293 Leanne Baker NZL 6-3, 6-2 *#195 Ayumi Morita JPN d #141 Emma Laine FIN 7-5, 6-2 #149 Andreja Klepac SLO d #171 Maret Ani EST 6-0, 6-1 *#196 Raquel Kops-Jones USA d #159 Meng Yuan CHN 6-1, 6-3 #160 Olga Govortsova BLR d #227 Sarah Borwell GBR 7-6(5), 6-2 *#179 Zi Yan CHN d #166 Petra Cetkovska CZE 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 *#208 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy NED d #183 Kristina Brandi PUR 7-6(10), 1-6, 7-6(4) Birmingham, Withdrawals #16 Tatiana Golovin FRA right ankle #19 Vera Zvonareva RUS left wrist #25 Sybille Bammer AUT #30 Samantha Stosur AUS left foot #45 Nicole Pratt AUS right knee #48 Victoria Azarenka BLR #52 Jie Zheng CHN left ankle #66 Anastasia Rodionova RUS right hand #68 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA left wrist #71 Shenay Perry USA right knee #78 Aiko Nakamura JPN     The Birmingham trophy is a silver flower basket, valued at 20 guineas in 1884 (over $2000 US today), which was awarded that year to first Wimbledon ladies champion Maud Watson.     Maude donated the basket to the Edgbaston Priory Club in 1934, and when the Birmingham tourney was created as a Wimbledon warm-up in 1982, it became the Maude Watson Trophy.

Barcelona KIA,  Barcelona, Spain   Plan your trip Local Radar Detailed Forecast     Barcelona: The main draw for Barcelona has 8 seeds, with NO 1st-round byes.     There are 4 qualifiers and 3 wild cards in the main draw. Qualifying finals are on Monday.     Barcelona Olympic Tennis Center - click for sat pic-map Latitude: 34.050099 Longitude: -5.000153 goto link for World Wind     Barcelona (daylight savings) time is GMT (UCT, ZULU) + 1 hour (US Pacific Daylight Time +8, EDT +5). Spain news

Barcelona, 1st Round, Mon-Tue 1pm WTA Tue story losers' prize: $955 US; points: 1 #28 s1 Francesca Schiavone ITA d #94 Romina Oprandi ITA 6-2, retired-- right arm bruise Mon *#103 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS d #36 s2 Martina Muller GER 6-3, 6-4 Tue #41 s3 Emilie Loit FRA d #125 Timea Bacsinszky SUI 7-5, 6-3 Mon #55 s4 Kaia Kanepi EST d #85 Karin Knapp ITA 6-2, 7-6(7) Tue #59 s5 Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP d #107 q Greta Arn GER 6-2, 6-4 Tue #61 s6 Meghann Shaughnessy USA d #267 wc Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP 6-3, 6-4 Mon #62 s7 Virginie Razzano FRA d #114 Julia Schruff GER 7-6, 3-6, 6-0 Tue #67 s8 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #232 wc Conchita Martinez Granados ESP 6-2, 6-3 Tue #75 Camille Pin FRA d #76 Jelena Kostanic Tosic CRO 6-1, 6-1 Tue *#90 Tatjana Malek GER d #82 Iveta Benesova CZE 5-2, retired-- right lumbar disfunction Mon *#147 wc Laura Pous Tio ESP d #88 Sandra Kloesel GER 6-3, 7-6 Tue *#104 Edina Gallovits ROU d #89 Virginia Ruano Pascual ESP 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Tue *#123 Melinda Czink HUN d #99 Catalina Castano COL 6-2, 6-3 Tue *#102 q Agnes Szavay HUN d #101 Tatiana Poutchek BLR 6-3, 7-5 Tue #110 Emmanuelle Gagliardi SUI d #209 Tatiana Perebiynis UKR 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 Tue #161 q Maria Emilia Salerni ARG d #189 q Ekaterina Dzehalevich BLR 6-3, 7-5 Tue

Barcelona, 2nd Round, Wed 1pm WTA story losers' prize: $1,775 US; points: 15 *#102 q Agnes Szavay HUN d #28 s1 Francesca Schiavone ITA 6-1, 6-1 #41 s3 Emilie Loit FRA d #75 Camille Pin FRA 6-1, 6-1 #55 s4 Kaia Kanepi EST d #161 q Maria Emilia Salerni ARG 6-3, 6-0 *#104 Edina Gallovits ROU d #59 s5 Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP 6-4, 6-2 #61 s6 Meghann Shaughnessy USA d #147 wc Laura Pous Tio ESP 7-5, 6-4 #62 s7 Virginie Razzano FRA d #123 Melinda Czink HUN 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-2 #67 s8 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #90 Tatjana Malek GER 6-3, 6-4 #103 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS d #110 Emmanuelle Gagliardi SUI 6-0, 6-4

Barcelona, QFs, Thu 1pm WTA story losers' prize: $3,310 US; points: 30 *#67 s8 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #41 s3 Emilie Loit FRA 6-3, 6-3 *#104 Edina Gallovits ROU d #55 s4 Kaia Kanepi EST 6-4, 7-5 #61 s6 Meghann Shaughnessy USA d #102 q Agnes Szavay HUN 7-6, 6-4 #62 s7 Virginie Razzano FRA d #103 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS 6-1, 6-4

Barcelona, SFs, Fri 1pm WTA story losers' prize: $6,140 US; points: 50 #61 s6 Meghann Shaughnessy USA d #67 s8 Flavia Pennetta ITA 6-0, 4-6, 6-4 *#104 Edina Gallovits ROU d #62 s7 Virginie Razzano FRA 6-3, 6-4

Barcelona, Final, Sat 3:30pm loser's prize: $11,395 US; points: 80 winner's prize: $21,140 US +KIA Cee’d Automobile; points: 115 #61 s6 Meghann Shaughnessy USA d #104 Edina Gallovits ROU 6-3, 6-2 Meghann sitting on her new Kia Cee'd car, and Meghann and Edina flanking retired Spanish great (and tourney director) Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario

Barcelona, Doubles Final, Sat after singles losers' prize: $3,360 US winners' prize: $6,240 US *cdr364 Nuria Llagostera Vives & Arantxa Parra Santonja d     cdr112 s2 Lourdes Domínguez Lino & Flavia Pennetta 7-6(3), 2-6, (12-10) Arantxa Parra Santonja & Nuria, Lourdes & Flavia, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, and WTA rep Catharine Hall Barcelona, Qual Finals, Mon Jun 11 1pm losers' prizes: q1:$165 pts:1; q2:$280 pts:2; q3:$515 pts:3; qualifier points: 7 #102 Agnes Szavay HUN d #300 Marta Marrero ESP 6-4, retired--abdominal muscle strain #107 Greta Arn GER d #164 Ekaterina Ivanova RUS 6-4, 6-3 *#189 Ekaterina Dzehalevich BLR d #148 Sara Errani ITA 6-1, 6-0 #161 Maria Emilia Salerni ARG d #235 Ekaterina Afinogenova RUS 6-1, 6-0 Barcelona, Withdrawals #22 Tathiana Garbin ITA right leg #65 Elena Vesnina RUS #86 Jarmila Gajdosova SVK #91 Tsvetana Pironkova BUL Birmingham #97 Varvara Lepchenko UZB Birmingham #112 Anastasiya Yakimova BLR #133 Martina Sucha SVK

    (Jun 8, 2007) # 2 Maria Sharapova, the 2004 and 2005 Birmingham champion, who had planned on passing up the tourney this year and playing at Eastbourne instead, has accepted a wild card entry, and will be the top seed.

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